Metamorphosis

Metamorphosis The very ancient belief that certain people were empowered with the magical ability to change themselves and others at will into other life forms such as other human beings, animals, birds and insects.

Metamorphosis
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From Ovid's Metamorphosis.
In the initiation, of the Bacchic Mysteries, the rõle of Bacchus is played by the candidate who, set upon by priests in the guise of the Titans, is slain and finally restored to life amidst great rejoicing.

It also controls cases in which a species that goes through metamorphoses as part of the maturation process begins to stop itself at some point before the final metamorphosis occurs. No species was given for this second effect.

George Sandys Ovid's Metamorphosis. (1632, reprinted 1981) p. 253 (333).
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The Eagle shall snap up and devour the Lion in this combination; afterwards being affected with a long sleep, and a dropsy occasioned by a foul stomach, she shall be changed by a wonderful metamorphosis into a coal black Crow, ...

circle, and have extended it from the Monadic point to the extreme linear efflux of the Elements in a circle, almost analogous to the equinoctial which makes one revolution in 24 hours, so now at last we consummate and terminate the metamorphosis and ...

The Earth era of the Earth Metamorphosis is in turn divided into seven Form Conditions (= "Globes" of Theosophy), referring to, as indicated above, the descent from spirit to physical matter (the present Earth), and subsequent ascent back to Spirit.

"Corpus Domini: Ritual Metamorphosis and Social Change in Sixteenth and Seventeenth-century Genoa." 228-242. N. Terpstra, ed. The Politics of Ritual Kinship; Confraternities and Social Order in Early Modern Italy. Cambridge Univ Press, Cambridge.

Idel, 'Abraham Abulafia and the Pope: The Meaning and Metamorphosis of an Abortive Attempt' (Hebrew), Association of Jewish Studies Review 7-8, (1982-3) pp. 1-17. See also H.

Also, the hallucination (either by the influence of psychotropic drugs or by mental disease) that one can be transformed into an animal. The term comes from the Greek lukos, ‘wolf' and anthropos, ‘man', and stories of such a metamorphosis ...

See also: Spirit, World, Ritual, Spiritual, Magic